Judge Anderson

[garlicbread]

I quite like this that Mike James of Azimuth Design did a while back....

 

[Clutch]

Weird on the color. Haven't seen that. The one thing I hated were all those little channels that had to be cut out. Ah, the good ole' days.

 

[Callista]

I was thinking about purchasing and using mini casting kit from Hobby Lobby to do my casting with and wondered if anyone had used this or could recommend what to use for casting from a vinyl model piece.

Alumilite Mini Casting Kit | Shop Hobby Lobby

and I do agree those are unique colors for Judge Andreson

 

[garlicbread]

I would imagine that if you're doing a few small castings then this would be ideal, never used this type of kit before as normally I buy in bulk...sounds reasonably priced. Sounds like it's a polyurethane resin (as it's a tan colour and goes off quickly) so once you've done the moulds...that will take the most time, you shouldn't have long to wait

Russ

 

[Jaitea]

I used to make small sculpts and use latex to make the molds (it's moved on to silicone now), I used to cut them into sections and had to add extra bits on to the sections like the way your pieces already have:

I would make a container out of card & pour the mould making rubber in around your piece keeping the extra part as the place where I would pour the resin in.

some tutorials:
Mold making basics: Silicone Block Mold - YouTube
Mold Making Minute: 2-Part Mold Star® 15 Mold - YouTube

J

 

[Callista]

I've finally gotten somewhere with this. After messing around with the silicone and testing I finally cast my first part:

Bottom part of the mold done

Removing the box from around the molds

I ended up using two different kinds of silicone to make the complete mold.

And the final product

It's far from perfect but its also a far cry better than trying to sculpt from scratch!

Huzzzah!!

 

[garlicbread]

For a first try, it's turned out pretty darn good....you're definitely on your way WELL DONE!!

 

[Too Much Garlic]

Very nice, but everything above the main model where the vinyl pour sprout is, is basically wasted silicone and resin. Just have the mold stop at the original pour sprout - it also gives you a wider opening to pour the resin into and makes trapped air easier to escape. :thumbsup